As I’ve been working a good amount on GDPR over the past few long months, there are a few areas of Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) around the subject area to which there really aren’t enough sensible posts.
Robin Scott
Learn Shopify SEO
My friend and Silicon Dales colleague, Jono Farrington, has made a terrific course for people looking to learn all about Shopify SEO.
24 Hour Live Streaming The Inbetweeners
So anyway, apparently, this is a thing… The UK’s Channel 4 is now 24 hour live streaming The Inbetweeners on YouTube… well, “Best of the Inbetweeners“.
Dunkin’ my Weight Watchers Donuts
Am I the only one who noticed the conspiracy of apparently serendipitous timing this week of Weight Watchers changing its name to “WW” in the same week as Dunkin’ Donuts changed its name to just plain ole “Dunkin'”?
WooCommerce 3.5.3 Released – Fixes WP 5.0.2 Order Table Missing Issue
The WooCommerce core team just shipped WooCommerce 3.5.3, which is really a 1 issue patch release, which resolves the not-so-insignificant issue of the Orders list table (in wp admin) going missing on upgrade to last night’s WordPress 5.0.2 release.
Man Utd finally showing old signs of class under Solskjaer
It has been a good year for sports fans in the North West of England in particular, as we’ve been a little spoiled with our area’s sports men and women showing World Class levels of performance, so it was nice to see sleeping giants at Mancester United showing signs of recovery under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer during the Christmas period.
Complete 2019 New Year’s Honours List
The 2019 New Year’s Honours List was published today, on 29 December 2019, and in case you wanted to see the full list, without it being in a PDF, I’ve published it below – minus all the ads and other slowness that mainstream news media will surround their honours list content with.
Navigating the Complete List:
This list is complete and searchable – for example, if you are on a desktop or laptop computer, hit CTRL + F and then type in a county or city (say “North Yorkshire” or “London”) or a surname (like “Wilkinson”) and you can then flip through the relevant items. Alternatively, there’s a table of contents so you can jump to the main sections of honours.
I was able to post this really quickly for the benefit of the world because I have the best broadband in Britain.
WordPress Governance Project to Launch 15 Jan 2019
Another one of those quick announcement posts, but this one is really important and an interesting step in the right direction for the Open Source WordPress community.
Backward Compatibility Vs Technical Debt
Here’s an interesting explanation of the “Eternal Struggle” between Technical Debt and Backward Compatibility (in a WordPress context) from WP CLI maintainer, Alain Schlesser.
Brexit Yoga
It seems like the Irish and the Australians are enjoying Brexit a lot… well, a lot more than we here in Britain are!